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Article: Autour de Ramus: Le combat.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2006
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Kees Meerhoff, Jean-Claude Moisan, and Michel Magnien, eds. Autour de Ramus: Le combat.
Colloques, Congres et Conferences sur la Renaissance 46. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2005. 492 pp. index. [euro]51. ISBN: 2-7453-1137-9.
This rich collection of papers is a companion piece to Autour de Ramus: Texte, Theorie, Commentaire, also edited by K. Meerhoff and J.-C. Moisan, from Editions Nota Bene, 1997. The Quebec volume discusses Ramus's works and theories. The present work studies the controversy surrounding Ramus, hence the term combat. As the late renowned Walter J. Ong, S.J., wrote in his Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue, "Ramus was a ...